The Workshop on Higher-Order Asymptotics and Post-Selection Inference
(WHOA-PSI) seeks to showcase the exciting new ideas coming out of the
post-selection inference framework and investigate how tools from
higher-order asymptotics can both elucidate important properties of
post-selection inference procedures, as well as suggest new directions
which may ultimately yield more accurate small-sample performance.
(More details on potential topics below).

This conference supports the Non-Discrimination
Statement of the Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM).We
are grateful to have the financial sponsorship of the NSF through DMS-1623028, the Dean of the Faculty of Arts &
Sciences, the Department of Mathematics, and the Division of
Biostatistics, all at Washington University in St. Louis.

Click here for the discussion board.Most
of the slides are also available there. I tried an experiment with this
workshop: since speakers and audience members rarely have sufficient
interaction, I created a discussion board where audience members could
give comments and ask questions in real-time (also with LaTeX support),
and the speaker could reply later on, even weeks later after having
time to reflect!

Eventually (not yet) everything will be archived on a permanent website available here.

The aspects of the above topics and other post-selection inference
procedures which will be emphasized in the workshop are those related
to higher-order asymptotics,
including both analytic- and resampling-based tools and refinements,
some of which are described in:

Small (2010), Expansions and
Asymptotics for Statistics, Chapman & Hall.

For those arriving early or thinking about staying longer, St. Louis is a
lovely place to visit. Besides the iconic Gateway Arch and the nearby Old
Courthouse which houses exhibits on the Dred Scott
case, St. Louis has a stunning botanical garden, a
high density of good restaurants (BBQ is a specialty), and is close to
many rivers
(Missouri, Mississippi and Meremac) which are great for float trips.
There are many nearby parks and nature reserves which are excellent for
hiking, as well as a wolf
sanctuary. Mark Twain's boyhood
home lies an hour north of the city. Anheuser-Busch is
headquartered in St. Louis and offers tours of the brewery
(requires advance booking due to popularity). The workshop takes place
one week before the second scheduled US Presidential Election debate,
which will be held on campus. For those unfamiliar with the
institution, Washington
University in St. Louis is a leading national research university,
ranked 23rd in the world in the 2016 Academic
Ranking of World Universities. Our statistics presence is
concentrated in the Dept. of
Mathematics. You are encouraged to look around this beautiful
campus on the western edge of St. Louis, which faces Forest
Park, the site of the 1904
World's Fair and home to the Saint
Louis Zoo and Saint Louis Art Museum
(both free admission, walking distance from campus). For baseball fans,
the Pittsburgh Pirates are in town the weekend of the workshop, playing
the St. Louis Cardinals at Busch Stadium.